Revolutions
Imperialism
World Wars
Cold War
1979-Present
100
This was the name of the rigid social hierarchy that existed in France before the revolution.
What is the Estates System?
100
This was the period in which European nations rushed to colonize the continent of Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa? 
100
This man's assassination started World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
This was the name Winston Churchill gave to the invisible line that divided Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain? 
100
This process has led to greater political and economic relationships between nations.
What is globalization? :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/globalization-7a32d360eee84693ae791eb15d0b2620.png)
200
This was the name of the leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Toussaint Louverture? 
200
This nation was colonized by England before the English began colonization anywhere in Asia or Africa.
What is Ireland? 
200
This treaty ended world War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles? 
200
This leader took power in 1949, thus establishing China as a communist nation.
Who was Mao Zedong? 
200
This South African leader fought to end apartheid, ultimately spending 27 years in prison before being released by F.W. de Klerk. This allowed him to become president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela? 
300
This was the leader who fought for the independence of Spanish colonies in South America.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
300
China was forced to sign unequal treaties and divided into spheres of influence after these conflicts.
What were the Opium Wars? 
300
This was the policy that Prime Minister Chamberlain and other European leaders adopted when dealing with Hitler.
What is appeasement? 
300
This was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was Fidel Castro? 
300
This was the Chinese communist leader who opened up China to some modernizations.
Who was Deng Xiaoping? 
400
This was the name of the city in which the Industrial Revolution first began.
What is Manchester, United Kingdom?
400
This was the uprising by soldiers who worked for the British East India Company in 1857.
What was the Sepoy Rebellion?
400
This was the German attack method that allowed them to quickly invade Poland in 1939.
What is Blitzkrieg? 
400
This was a period in which tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union decreased in the 1970s.
What is détente? 
400
Ayatollah Khomeini took power in 1979 Iranian Revolution, thus instituting this type of government in Iran.
What is a theocracy?
500
This was an economic theory that suggested that the workers of the world needed to unite in order to fight oppression by the ruling class.
What is communism? 
500
This was the name of the company that colonized present day Indonesia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
500
Napoleon did this first. Hitler followed suit. It was a bad idea.
What is invading Russia? 
500
This a term that refers to the rapid spread of nuclear weapon technology.
What is nuclear proliferation? 
500
This uprising in North Africa and Southwest Asia began in 2011 and was propelled by social media.
What is Arab Spring? 
600
This was the name of the Enlightenment thinker whose ideas helped to inspire capitalist economic policies.
Who is Adam Smith? :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/adam-smith-economics_final2-261ec50cfb04406585d7a298858eb4bb.png)
600
This was the name of the U.S. navy officer who essentially forced Japan to open themselves up to the west, thus starting the Meiji Restoration.
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry? 
600
This atrocity, committed by the Japanese, occured in 1937 as their imperial troops invaded China.
What is the Nanjing Massacre? (also known as the Rape of Nanking) 
600
This conflict severely weakened the Soviet Union, helping to bring about its fall and the end of the Cold War.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War? 
600
This group of women in Argentina have been protesting for over 40 years, demanding answers as to what happend to their disappeared family members.
Who were the Mothers of the Plaza del Mayo? 